Artist, connoisseur and private detective Philip Trent features in this collection comprising eleven short stories. Including "The Genuine Tabard," in which a clergyman and unique objets d'art are involved in a neat confidence trick; "The Foolproof Lift, in which a blackmailing valet is found murdered; and "The Ordinary Hairpins," in which a golden-haired opera singer commits suicide - but Trent is wisely suspicious.